Improvement in vapor-burners



W. BLIBSNER.' VAPOR BURNER.

Patented Jan. 1,8, 1870.

A in combination with the. lamp.

' AUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM BLIESNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MPROVEMEN'T IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Specification forming part olf Letters Patent No. 98,842, dated J anuary 18, 1870.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BLIESNER, of St.vLouis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented an Improved Self-Actin g Oil-Vapor-Generatin g Burner as a new article of manufacture; and I -do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact ldescription of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is a vertical section of the burner view of the burner-bottom of the valve, which is intended to close theupper part of the oilreservoir. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Vthe burner, with an extra cap intended to form a iiat iiaine. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the burner, with an extra cap intended to form a tubular iivame. Fig. 5 shows the upper part of the burner, with the cap exhibited in Fig. 4.

My improvement appertains to that class of burners where gas is generated from oil, on a small scale, and in proportion to the quantity consumed by heating and vaporizing the oil,

just before it escapes from the conductingplpe. Y

The oil passes through the tube D to the horizontal capillary tube o'r generator C1, which is -kept in a heated state, when the lamp is burning, by the immediate contact with the bunchy knot or heater G2. Passing through the generator O1, the oilis vaporized, and the vapor, descending through the vertical capillary tube, escapes from a small opening,in gas-form, and, passing upward through the cylindrical mixing-chamber C3, is mixed with the atmospheric air, which enters at the base of the mixingtube, and arrives at the top of the burner in a suitable state to generate a clear and brilliant gas-flame.

The knot C2 is heated by two small flames, which emanate from the two lateral heatingl orifices C4 in the gas-tube G3, immediately be= low the top end of the same.

Fig. 2 is aA The partieularity of my invention consistsl 4' in the arrangement ofthe horizontal gas-generating capillary tube (11,111 immediate con tact with the heating-knot G2, near the top of the burner, and in immediate vicinity of. the

heating-orifices G4, and near the principal flame, and inthe arrangement of the vertical capillary tube in immediate contact with the gas-burner (3, whereby the heati 11g-process is greatly facilitated.

end of the tubular air-channcl b. This valve' will admit the air to the reservoir, when necessary, but it will prevent the escape of the oil'.

When the la'mp shall'be, lighted, the checkvalve E is opened. A portion of the oil iiows out and gathers in the' pan, which is attached to the lower end of the burner. There, being directly lighted, it warms theapparatus to a vaporizing degree, and from that moment the oil escapes in gas form.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i The vapor-burner C, provided with horizontal and vertical capillary gas-generatin g tube Ul, heating-knot G2, v heating-orifices G4, and niixingcliamber C, all arranged for joint operation, substantially as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM BLIESNER.

Vt'itnesses EDWARD F, SCHREINER, A. HARTNUs. 

